In all of California, more than 34,000 teachers served on emergency permits in 1998â $ «99, the last year for which complete data are available. (educationnext.org)
The state of emergency declared by Cuomo allows the Department of Environmental Conservation to issue emergency permits for protective measures against high Lake Ontario waters, and Cuomo also created a rapid response team, a flood information hotline and deployed 20 National Guard members to help in flood reactions. (buffalonews.com)
Getting better - qualified teachers into California's classrooms will require improved teacher education, higher salaries for public school teachers and administrators, and elimination of emergency permits over the next five years, a state panel argues in a report issued last week. (edweek.org)